A file photo of New York Assembyman Steve McLaughlin, R-Albany, speaking at a gun law rally outside the Capitol in Albany on Jan. 19.

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An Albany-area assemblyman apologized Tuesday hours after he said Hitler and Mussolini would be proud of Gov. Andrew Cuomo for pushing through a gun-control bill last month.

Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin, R-Melrose, Rensselaer County, was criticizing Cuomo for using a message of necessity to pass the gun bill and avoid a three-day waiting period for the bill to be adopted.

"If that's not dictatorial, I don't know what is. Hitler would be proud. Mussolini would be proud of what we did here. Moscow would be proud. But that's not democracy," McLaughlin said in a news conference Tuesday ...